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CHESTER,  SOUTH  CAROLINA 


fjf  HIS  INSTITUTION,  founded  and  maintained  by  the  Pres- 


^mf  byterian  Church  for  the  education  of  colored  youth,  is  loca- 
ted in  the  hill  country  of  Upper  South  Carolina,  in  the  midst  of 
a  dense  colored  population. 

It  is  in  the  midst  of  a  large  group  of  colored  churches,  is 
very  central  in  Fairfield  Presbytery,  and  is  the  only  institution  for 
the  Higher  Education  of  these  people  within  the  bounds  of  the 
Presbytery  and  along  the  hundred  miles  of  Railway  from  Biddle 
University  to  the  Baptist  and  Methodist  Institutions  of  Columbia. 

The  Primary  Department  is  in  the  old  buildings,  erected 
soon  after  the  war,  not  far  from  the  centre  of  the  town,  but  the 
Higher  and  Normal  Departments,  Young  Ladies  Ham., 
Residence  oe  Teachers,  and  the  New  Building,  now  in  process 
of  erection,  are  on  a  beautifully  sloping  eminence  overlooking  the 
town,  less  than  a  third  of  a  mile  eastward  from  the  Depots,  and  in 
conspicuous  view  from  the  Railroads. 

The  grounds  of  the  Institute  are  not  only  ample  and  beau- 
tiful, but  exceptionally  favorable  for  healthful ness ;  the  drainage 
is  excellent,  each  group  of  buildings  being  on  a  separate  gentle 
elevation,  the  "Old  Mansion"  on  the  exact  watershed  between  the 
Broad  and  Catawba  Rivers  ;  the  situation  is  thus  most  favorable 
for  the  collection  of  large  numbers  of  youth  without  danger  from 
endemic  diseases. 


A  building  is  now  in  process  of  erection  for  the 
use  of  the  Brainerd  Institute  and  the  enlarge- 
ment of  its  sphere  of  usefulness.  I  most  cheerfully 
commend  the  enterprise  to  all  who  can  aid  in  its 
erection.  The  Principal,  Rev.  Samuel  Loomis, 
has  had  his  residence  in  the  town  of  Chester,  S. 
C,  and  has  been  engaged  in  teaching  the  colored 
people  for  nearly  twenty  years.  He  has  been  quiet 
but  energetic  and  persevering  in  his  vocation,  and 
successful  in  organizing  and  supplying  churches, 
and  in  building  up  a  school  inferior  to  none  in 
the  country  in  capacity  and  earnestness  of  his 
corps  of  teachers,  and  in  the  number,  good  order, 
and  mental  and  moral  training  of  pupils.  He  is  a 
most  excellent  citizen  withal.  He  deserves  the 
gratitude  of  the  colored  people,  and  has  earned 
and  possesses  the  esteem  of  all  good  people,  white 
or  colored,  that  know  him. 

GILES  J.  PATTERSON, 
State  Senator  from  Chester  County! 

We  heartily  concur  in  the  above  : 


James  Hemphill, 

/President  of  Board  of  Trustees  of 
\        Gen']  Assembly  you.  Pres.  Ch'rh. 

J.  J.  McLure, 

President  of  Nat.  Bank  of  Chester. 

J.  L.  Harris, 

Cashier  Nat.  Bank  of  Chester. 

S.  E.  Babcock,  M.  D. 


H.  F.  Chreitzberg, 

f  Pastor  Methodist  K.  Church,  South, 
[         and  Secretary  So.  Ca.  Conference. 

R.  W.  Sanders, 

Pastor  Baptist  Church. 

Jas.  S.  Moffatt, 

Pastor  A.  R.  P.  Church. 

George  Summev, 

Pastor  Presbyterian  Church, 
and  Managing  Pvditor  So." Pres.  Quarterly 


Cheder,  S.   C,  March  5,  1888. 


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TO  THE  PRESENT  AND  FORMER  STUDENTS 
AND  ALL  FRIENDS  OF 

BRAINERD  INSTITUTE, 


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RRANGEMENTS  have  been   made  to  eonimence  a   new- 
school  building  to  be  called 

-  CENTENNIAL  HALL.=^- 


It  is  to  be  one  hundred  and  twenty-five  feet  in  length  and 
two  and  a  half  stories  high,  providing  School -Rooms,  Chapel, 
Library  and  Reading-Room,  Science-Room,  and  Dormitories 
for  young  men. 

The  "Old  Mansion"  on  the  hill  will  then  be  given  up  wholly 
for  the  Boarding  Department  and 

^THE  YOUNG  LADIES  HALL,^ 

Accommodations  will  in  this  way  be  provided  for  the  young 
men  away  from  the  valley  across  the  railroad,  convenient  to  the 
work,  more  favorable  to  health,  in  more  wholesome  surroundings, 
and  under  more  immediate  supervision  and  care. 

The  work  of  the  new  building  is  to  be  done  mainly  by  Stu- 
dent Labor. 

Enough  means  have  been  obtained  to  warrant  the  commence- 
ment of  the  building,  but  for  its  completion  we  shall  need  the  help 
of  all  who  have  been  interested  in  this  work  in  the  past,  and  who 
are  anxious  for  \U  prosperity  in  the  future. 

When  completed,  nearly  one  hundred  and  fifty  young  men 
and  women  can  find  pleasant  rooms  and  boarding  accommodations 
in  the  Institute  buildings. 

We  are  now  opening  books  for  contributions,  and  shall  be 
glad  to  receive  subscriptions  from  twenty-five  cents  upwards. 

All  subscriptions  will  be  carefully  recorded  in  a  volume  and 
preserved  for  future  reference,  and  all  moneys  received  will  be  de- 
posited in  the  National  Bank  of  Chester. 

In  making  contributions,  you  may  meet  with  friends  who  will 
be  ready  to  join  you,  and  willingly  add  their  help  that  Brainerd 
Institute  may  become,  in  largely  increased  measure,  through 
coming  years  a  fountain  of  educational,  moral,  and  religious 
influence. 

S.  LOOMIS,  Principal. 
Chester,  S.  C,  Feb.  14,  1888. 


The  taste  and  skill  of  the  Teachers  and  .students  of  the  Indus- 
trial Department,  in  Landscape  Gardening,  find  abundant  scope  in 
ornamenting  and  beautifying  the  grounds,  with  vegetable  garden, 
vineyard,  orchard,  and  lawn,  and  about  a  fourth  of  a  mile  of  car- 
riage ways  and  walks,  which  are  being  lined  with  shrubbery,  roses, 
chrysanthemums,  and  other  floral  decorations. 

The  Institute  has  a  corps  of  eight  teachers  well  fitted  and 
qualified  for  their  several  spheres  of  labor. 

The  educational  work  the  Institittk  aims  to  accomplish  is 

INDUSTRIAL, 

through  the  workshop,  on  the  grounds,  and  in  the  domestic  work 
of  the  Boarding  and  Young  Ladies  Department  : 

NORMAL, 

preparing  teachers  for  the  Public  Schools  of  the  country  ; 

SCIENTIFIC, 

with  extended  courses  in  the  natural  sciences,  illustrated  with  mi- 
croscope and  teleseope,  and  from  extensive  lithological,  geologic- 
al, mineralogieal  and  botanical  collections,  much  attention  being 
also  given  to  hygienic  study  and  training; 

BIBLICAL, 

with  daily  studies  for  the  moulding  of  character,  and  special  train- 
ing for  Christian  service  ; 

PRACTICAL, 

bv  preparing  for  the  actual  duties  of  the  actual  spheres  of  life  and 
effort. 

A  new  building,  one  hundred  and  twenty-five  feet  in  length, 
and  two  and  a  half  stories  high,  with  School  Rooms,  Chapel 
Library,  Reading-Room,  Science-Room,  and  Dormitories  for 
young  men,  is  being  erected  mainly  by  student  labor. 

The  last  year  lias  been  one  of  marked  prosperity,  the  entire 
enrollment  being  somewhat  above   three  hundred,    over  eighty  in 


attendance  from  abroad,  and  about  sixty  boarding  in  the  build- 
ings ;  the  health  of  the  scholars  in  the  main  is  excellent ;  there 
has  been  much  devotion  to  study  and  all  matters  of  improve- 
ment ;  gracious  reviving?  followed  the  "Day  of  Prayer"  and  num- 
bers were  gathered  into  the  fold  of  Christ. 

Chester  is  easily  accessible  by  railroad  from  every  direction. 

That  the  future  of  Bkainehd  Institute  may  have  through 
many  generations  a  career  marked  distinguishingly  and  preemi- 
nently by  Biblical  and  Spiritual  training,  by  an  unceasing  suc- 
cession of  the  reviving  showers  of  Heavenly  grace — the  mantle  of 
David  Bkainerd  resting  on  the  laborers,  and  the  Master's  spirit 
animating  inspiring  and  guiding  all  the  work — is  the  hope  and 
prayer  of  those  who  have  been  permitted  to  labor  in  its  early  his- 
tory, but  are  now  drawing  near  the  close  of  their  lengthy,  toilsome, 
sometimes  discouraging  hut  often  joyous  service. 

5.  LOOMIS,  Principal. 
Mai:ch  10,  1888. 


